❤️ “Do You Love Me?” — The God Who Lets His Heart Be Touched
❤️ “Do You Love Me?” — The God Who Lets His Heart Be Touched
October 11 2025
“Do you love Me?”
— Jesus, on the shores of Tiberias (John 21:15)
🕊️ When God Asks a Question
Most religions picture gods who command from lightning-filled thrones.
The pagan gods hurled thunderbolts to remind mortals who was in charge.
But one morning beside the Sea of Galilee,
Infinity knelt beside a fisherman and whispered a question no deity had ever dared ask:
“Do you love Me?”
Brennan Manning, in Abba’s Child, calls it “the most plaintive words ever spoken.”
The Almighty made Himself vulnerable —
not demanding allegiance, but inviting affection.
The Lord who died a bloody, God-forsaken death so we might live
now asks if we care for Him.
This is the scandal of divine tenderness.
The Creator of galaxies allows His heart to break over one man’s answer.
📖 Book of Mormon Echoes
The God Who Weeps
“Behold, the heavens weep over the children of men… and the God of heaven looked upon the residue of the people, and He wept.”
— Moses 7:28
“O ye people of these great cities… how oft have I gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.”
— 3 Nephi 10:4-6
He does not rage when ignored — He weeps.
Power does not shield His heart; it enlarges it.
The Voice That Still Asks
“I am the light and the life of the world… will ye not now return unto Me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?”
— 3 Nephi 9:13
The risen Christ still asks — Will you come? Will you love Me?
His invitation is personal, not institutional.
🪶 The Nemenhah Witness
“The Peacemaker did not come with commandment and punishment,
but with invitation and remembrance.
For He said: Behold, I am your Brother, and I would walk with you if you will open unto Me.”
— Book of Tsihohnayah Ahkehkthihm 13:41-43
“He wept for those who would not hear His voice, yet He returned unto them again and again.
For love compelleth Him more than justice constraineth Him.”
— Book of Mohrhohnahyah 8:27
“The Peacemaker’s heart is pierced not for sin alone,
but for love unreturned.
Therefore He speaketh continually, saying: Do you love Me? Then feed My lambs.”
— Book of Hayneht Paynieht Ahkehkt 5:19
The Nemenhah prophets saw the same tenderness the Galilean fishermen saw:
A Brother who keeps returning, no matter how many times we turn away.
🌾 Reflection
Heaven’s greatest mystery is not that we love God —
but that God loves us first… and waits for our answer.
Every time we choose mercy over pride, forgiveness over fear,
we are whispering Peter’s trembling words again:
“Yes Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee.”
And in that moment, the shore of Tiberias stretches right into our living rooms,
our prayers, our quiet hearts —
where the Savior still waits, smiling through tears,
asking, “Do you love Me?”
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” — John 14:21
Now here’s the deeper layer the Spirit keeps teaching me:
Those commandments are not just the old laws of stone — they are the living words Christ speaks to you personally.
When the Savior whispers a prompting, a correction, or a mission, that is a commandment.
When He says, “Go forgive her,” or “Call that friend,” or “Be still,” that is His law for that day.
The Pharisees had scrolls full of rules.
The modern Church has handbooks thicker than the Bible.
But the commandments of Christ are not bureaucracy — they are relationship.
“For the word of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.” — 2 Nephi 32:3
When you walk in that personal guidance, you fulfill the law as He fulfilled it — by love.
He will walk beside you, teach you, correct you, and manifest Himself to you continually.
That’s what the commandments truly are.
That’s what it means to love Him.
And that — more than anything — is the living gospel Paul and Joseph were both reaching for.
It’s the one the Peacemaker is still offering, right now, to you and me. 🌾🕊️
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